"300 people were evacuated to the nearby May Fair Hotel following a fire alarm in the hotel. No one was hurt in the blaze, which started in the basement casino kitchen's extraction vents. The Ritz casino only suffered ""minor damage"". Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was convalescing at the Ritz when she died following a stroke on 8 April 2013. There has been criticism because the Ritz has not paid any corporation tax since being taken over by the Barclay twins. The accounts indicate that the profitable hotel uses a series of tax reliefs to reduce its corporation tax"
"her office in the Lords had been closed. Earlier that month, Thatcher was named the most competent Prime Minister of the past 30 years in an Ipsos MORI poll. Baroness Thatcher died on 8 April 2013, at the age of 87, after suffering a stroke. She had been staying at a suite in the Ritz Hotel in London since December 2012 after having difficulty with stairs at her Chester Square home in Belgravia. Her death certificate listed the primary causes of death as a ""cerebrovascular accident"" and ""repeated transient ischaemic attack""; secondary causes were listed as a ""carcinoma of the"
"the creation of a new Royal Suite. It will recover emblematic elements such as the glass cover that occupied the center of the building when it was inaugurated, and will also incorporate artistic pieces from the Ritz collection, among which include crystal chandeliers, ancient paintings, frescoes and sculptures. On 18 September 2018, scaffolding and part of the sixth-floor of the hotel collapsed, killing one and injuring 11 more. All those injured were working on the renovation. Two of the workers were seriously injured and 3 had to be pulled from the rubble. The building was designed in 1908 by French"
"Model, actress, TV personality Anna Nicole Smith, who was staying at the resort, died in her hotel room on February 8, 2007. Smith's death was declared an accidental overdose on sleeping medication. On May 9, 2014, Seminole chairman James Billie announced a $100 million upgrade of his tribe's casinos, with much of that spent on the Hard Rock, including an improved entryway and center bar, pool upgrades, updates to hotel rooms and suites, and a new restaurant. As of March 2018, preparations were underway for expansion through 2019, which will include ""construction of an iconic hotel tower and resort."" As"
"planned to open by 2011, was expected to cost about €5 billion ($7.3 billion CAD). On December 23, 2013, Rizzuto died from complications of lung cancer at Sacré-Cœur hospital in Montreal; he was 67. Although his official cause of death was from natural causes, there has been speculation he could have been poisoned, as an autopsy was never performed on his body. Rizzuto's funeral was held at the Church of the Madonna della Difesa in Montreal's Little Italy on December 30, attended by around 800 people. He was buried at Saint-François d'Assise cemetery in St. Leonard. Mafia expert Antonio Nicaso"
"from fans. Warrior died on April 8, 2014 in Scottsdale, Arizona. He had been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 5, appeared at WrestleMania XXX on April 6, and made his first ""Raw"" appearance in almost 18 years on April 7, the day before his death. According to reports, Warrior clutched his chest and collapsed at 5:50 p.m. while walking to his car with his wife outside of their hotel in Arizona. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at age 54. Warrior's colleagues said Warrior appeared frail during WrestleMania weekend, and said"
"César Ritz César Ritz (23 February 1850 – 24 October 1918) was a Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously the Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the Ritz and Carlton Hotels in London (the forerunners of the modern Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company). He was known as ""king of hoteliers, and hotelier to kings,"" and it is from his name and that of his hotels that the term ""ritzy"" derives. Ritz was born in the Swiss village of Niederwald, the youngest of 13 children in a poor peasant family. At the age of twelve he was sent as a boarder"
"27 November 2008 at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, where he had gone for a meal, shortly after he gave an interview to the British Broadcasting Corporation. As of his death he had four children, and was ranked 265th on ""The Sunday Times"" Rich List of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom. A widower, he is survived by three daughters and a son, all of whom live in London. Andreas Liveras Andreas Dionysiou Liveras (1935 – 26 November 2008) was a Cyprus-born British businessman, who rose from modest means to own and run successful"
"Award. Instead, Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari presented the award at Pran's home in Mumbai. He was treated at the Lilavati Hospital and died on 12 July 2013. He had been admitted to hospital a few times in the last few months for deteriorating health; at some point he was battling pneumonia. Pran's death was widely noted by statesmen and his fellow entertainers. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh paid his condolences on his death and called him ""an icon"". Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan tweeted his feelings about his death calling him a ""magnificent pillar"" of the film industry. Pran has"
"in honour of Auguste Escoffier. On August 1, 2012, the Ritz closed for the first time in its history for an extensive restoration. It was scheduled to reopen in late 2015, but this date was later changed to March 2016. At 07:00 local time on 19 January 2016, a major fire broke out in the roof of the building. Fifteen fire engines and 60 firefighters attended. The Ritz reopened on 6 June 2016 after a major four-year, multimillion-dollar renovation. In the 21st century, the Ritz is ranked among the most luxurious hotel in the world and the most expensive in"
"the village of his birth. César Ritz César Ritz (23 February 1850 – 24 October 1918) was a Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously the Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the Ritz and Carlton Hotels in London (the forerunners of the modern Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company). He was known as ""king of hoteliers, and hotelier to kings,"" and it is from his name and that of his hotels that the term ""ritzy"" derives. Ritz was born in the Swiss village of Niederwald, the youngest of 13 children in a poor peasant family. At the age of twelve he"
"their personality, such as the ""Sayonara"" suite assigned to Marlon Brando after his starring role in ""Teahouse of the August Moon"". Tennessee Williams lived in the hotel for fifteen years and died in the ""Sunset"" suite. Columnist Jimmy Breslin, who regards the Elysée as ""a great hotel, a genuine New York landmark,"" succeeded Ruark as the hotel's unofficial chronicler. Upon Tennessee Williams's death at the Elysée in February 1983, Breslin recalled the story of a transient guest who called the front desk at 5:00 am complaining that someone in the next suite was keeping her awake by typing all night."
"Ritz-Escoffier School. The grandest suite of the hotel, called the ""Suite Impériale"", has been listed by the French government as a national monument in its own right. During the Second World War, the hotel was taken over by the occupying Germans as the local headquarters of the Luftwaffe. After the death in 1976 of Ritz's son, Charles, the last members of the Ritz family to own the hotel sold it to the Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed in 1979. On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales dined in the hotel's Imperial Suite, shortly before her death in a fatal car"
"Ritz Hotel, London, having been informed that he was going completely blind. At the time of his death, Beatty's eyesight had failed to the point where he needed to be in the company of his valet to walk. He was wearing his pyjamas and a robe when he told his valet he was going to the sixth floor of the Ritz to visit friends there. He then fell six floors to his death at the rear of the hotel. Beatty's most recent eye surgery was on 5 September. His brother, David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, with whom he was living"
"launched an education kit for schoolchildren about Alzheimers in 2007. In August 2009, she was placed in high level care. On 23 May 2013, she died from complications associated with the disease. She was 83 years old. Her family had been by her side in her last days. Public tributes were paid to her by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard and the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce. A state memorial service was held for her at the Sydney Opera House on 25 June 2013, attended by five prime ministers (Hawke, Keating, Howard, Rudd and Gillard), the Governor-General, and a range of state"
"assumed presidency of the empire in 1953, when his mother Marie-Louise retires. Marie-Louise returns to her husband's village (Niederwald) during the summer's and sets up The Ritz Foundation specifically for Niederwald's youth. The Foundation pays for scholarships and apprenticeship programs, Marie-Louis later passes away in 1961. He attempted to introduce his progressive ideas when he opened ""le bar Vendôme"" and the ""l'Espadon"" restaurant but found himself hampered by the board of directors. His father died in 1918. Charles Ritz Charles C. Ritz (August 1, 1891 – July 11, 1976) was a French hotelier and fly fishing specialist. Charles Ritz was"
"is if you can't afford it"". In 1904 and 1908, the Ritz garden café was painted by the Swiss artist, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot. Proust wrote parts of ""Remembrance of Things Past"" here from around 1909. The building was extended in 1910, and César Ritz died in 1918, succeeded by his son, Charles Ritz. Queen Marie of Romania stayed at the Ritz Hotel with her two eldest daughters, Elisabeth (of Greece) and Maria (of Yugoslavia) in 1919 while campaigning for Greater Romania at the Paris Peace Conference. Many other prominent royal figures and heads of state slept and dined at the hotel"
"Company in 1907, from the Carlton Hotel Company in 1908, and from the Paris Ritz Company in 1911. By 1912, according to Marie-Louise Ritz, to all intents and purposes his life had finished. In 1913 he was placed in a private hospital at Lausanne, and the following year he was moved to another on Lake Küssnacht in Canton Schwyz. He died at Küssnacht on 26 October 1918. Although from a humble Swiss background, César Ritz and his luxurious hotels became legendary, and his name entered the English language as an epitome of high-class cuisine and accommodation. He is buried in"
"suite was Hermann Göring's choice of residence during the Second World War and it was where Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al-Fayed ate their last meal. The World Travel Awards of 2007 selected the Imperial Suite as ""Europe's Leading Suite"". Although there was necessarily a hotel restaurant from the inception of the Ritz, the current hotel restaurant, L'Espadon (The Swordfish) was established in 1956 by Charles Ritz. He was a keen fishing enthusiast so named the restaurant after a fish. The restaurant is inspired by the legendary first chef of the hotel, Auguste Escoffier, serving ""traditional French culinary style"
"the twenty, selected, guests, there was Shafferman. Other guests were: Patricia Buckley, Consuelo Crespi, Olga Rostropovich (daughter of Mstislav Rostropovich), Marguerite Litman (a noted London hostess), Countess Elizabeth von Habsburg, Kartica Soekarno, John Richardson, Count Geza von Habsburg, Kenny Lane, Pete Hathaway, Toto Bergamo, Larry Lovett, Pierre Durand, Alex Hitz, Alexander Apsis, Sebastian Thaw, Victor Barcimento. In 2008 he attended the Venetian Heritage Event honoring Larry Lovett at the St. Regis Hotel; he is photographed talking with Gaetana Enders. Shafferman died on October 19, 2009, of pancreatic cancer. Victor Shafferman Victor Shafferman (November 8, 1941 – October 19, 2009) was"
"25th anniversary edition of ""This Morning"" in 2013, where presenter Holly Willoughby ""broke out into a cold sweat"" while reliving the moment. At the height of his fame in 1966, Pitney married his childhood sweetheart, Lynne Gayton, and the couple had three sons, Todd, Chris, and David. Pitney was touring the UK in the spring of 2006 when his manager found him dead in his hotel room in Cardiff on April 5. An autopsy found the cause of death to be a heart attack and that he had severely occluded coronary arteries. His final show at Cardiff's St David's Hall"
"of the Ritz"", met with Sir Bracewell Smith in Park Lane Hotel to complain about the standards; Smith himself dined at the Ritz and informed them that it was quite satisfactory. Several suicides also darkened the reputation of the Ritz in the postwar years, including that of horse trainer Peter Beatty from the sixth floor window in October 1949, and that of French gangster Baron Pierre de Laitre, who strangled love interest Eileen Hill to death in his second floor room in March 1953 when she refused to marry him, before killing himself by stuffing a silk sock down his"
"and became president of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, and of the board of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in London. Pfyffer once pointed out to Ritz that although the rose brocade-covered dining chairs at the Paris hotel were comfortable, the guests would stay at table longer if the chairs had arms. Ritz at once ordered all the chairs to be replaced. The 1948 biography of Cesar Ritz by his wife, Marie Louise Ritz, was dedicated to Colonel Hans Pfyffer d'Altishofon. Hans Pfyffer died in Lucerne on 5 April 1953. Hans Pfyffer Hans Pfyffer von Altishofen (28 March 1866 – 5 April"
"over the years. Edward VII reportedly once got stuck in a too-narrow bathtub with his lover at the hotel. August Escoffier died in 1935. After the death of Charles Ritz in 1976, the hotel went into a period of slow decline. As it lost its luster, its clientele diminished, and for the first time in its existence it began to lose money. It was rescued, however, in 1979 by an Egyptian businessman, Mohamed Al-Fayed, who purchased the hotel for $20 million and installed a new managing director, Frank Klein. Klein in turn put Guy Legay, the former chef of the"
"leisure travelers, into a property where business travelers constitute 80 percent of the clientele. The meeting spaces and the International Ballroom—where the Golden Globes ceremony is held—were also renovated. On February 11, 2012, singer Whitney Houston died in her bathtub in Suite 434. Hotel management has since renovated the room. In April 2006, owners unveiled plans for a $500-million expansion to the Beverly Hilton property. The plans require an amendment to the Beverly Hills general plan's three-story height limit in order to build two 13-story condominium towers and a 15-story condo hotel, where rooms would be rented to guests when"
"creation of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group as a strategic partnership. Rezidor’s President and CEO, industry legend Kurt Ritter, announced his retirement after 36 years. CARLSON REZIDOR HOTEL GROUP A year after its formation in 2012, Austrian born Wolfgang M. Neumann took over as Rezidor’s President. The world’s first-ever Radisson RED hotel launched in Brussels in 2016. Radisson RED Brussels was followed by RED openings in Minneapolis, Campinas, and Cape Town . Back in Europe in 2016, Rezidor entered the economy segment of the hospitality industry with the acquisition of a 49% stake in the successful German start-up prizeotel. HNA"
"a penthouse near the Ritz Hotel, he died of respiratory failure in 2008, age 82. His granddaughters Fawn and India James inherited his estate once estimated at £650m. Fawn announced her intention to commit to charity work in 2010. Their combined wealth was estimated as £454 million in ""The Sunday Times"" Rich List of 2015. ""The Look of Love"" (released 26 April 2013) is about his life: Michael Winterbottom (director), Steve Coogan (Raymond), Anna Friel (wife, Jean), Imogen Poots (daughter, Debbie) and then-current Paul Raymond Publications employees and editors (extras or pseudo-cameos). The working title was ""The King of Soho"","
"March 29, 1986. He left behind a widow, his children ( including two young daughters with a very young wife), granddaughter and his sister. Ritz is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Ritz, along with his brothers, influenced comedians such as Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, and Danny Kaye. Brooks cast Ritz in a cameo in his 1976 movie ""Silent Movie"". In an interview with Esquire magazine, Brooks had this to say regarding Ritz; In that same interview, Lewis had this to say about Ritz; Harry Ritz Harry Ritz (May 22, 1907 – March 29, 1986),"
"several previous occasions been due to give evidence concerning payments he allegedly received when he was Taoiseach. In December 2013, it was revealed by his son that Reynolds was in the last stages of Alzheimer's disease. Reynolds died on 21 August 2014. The last politician to visit him was John Major. The serving Taoiseach, Enda Kenny of Fine Gael, said at the time: The funeral, held at Church of the Sacred Heart, in Donnybrook, on 25 August 2014, was attended by President Michael D. Higgins, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, former SDLP leader and Nobel"
"Graf Zeppelin airship soared over the hotel on its round-the-world voyage, sponsored by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Crew and passengers were fed by Biltmore culinary staff, who also replenished their on-board supplies. During World War II, the Biltmore served as a military rest and recreation facility, with the entire second floor set up with cots for military personnel on leave. On March 7, 1952, the well-known yogi and author Paramahansa Yogananda, while giving a speech in honor of the Indian ambassador Binay Ranjan Sen, dropped dead of a heart attack at the Biltmore Hotel. This site within the hotel"
"being hit by a car in 1918 at that spot. Three years later, on April 7, 1921, he was again hit by a car at exactly the same spot, this time fatally. Lorenz's son Louis Adlon took over management of the hotel with his wife Hedda, who was German-born but had been raised in America. During the ""Golden Twenties"", the Adlon remained one of the most famous hotels in Europe, hosting celebrity guests including Louise Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Emil Jannings, Albert Einstein, Enrico Caruso, Thomas Mann, Josephine Baker, and Marlene Dietrich, and also politicians like Franklin Roosevelt, Paul"
"Dior, Sophia Loren, Julie Andrews, Lena Horne, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Elton John, U2, Led Zeppelin, The Who, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg and Stephen Fry are just a few of the celebrities who stayed there in recent decades. Richard Harris lived at the hotel for the last several years of his life. While being carried out on a stretcher before he died, he joked, ""It was the food."" The Savoy hotel has long been associated with the arts. Monet served as the hotel's first artist-in-residence in 1901, and that program continues. George Gershwin gave"
"unpacked; he was always either just arriving from or departing upon a new journey"". In 1896, Ritz formed the Ritz Hotel syndicate with South African millionaire Alfred Beit, reputedly the wealthiest man in the world at the time. They opened what would become the celebrated Hôtel Ritz in the Place Vendôme, Paris, late in 1898. At the inauguration, on 1 June 1898, were many figures of the European elite, including Lady de Grey, the Duke and Duchess de Rohan, Calouste Gulbenkian, and Marcel Proust. He went on to open The Ritz Hotel in London in 1905, which became one of"